Sectional hollow metal wheel.



A. AH. TROTTER. SECTIUNAL HOLLOW METAL WHEEL. APPucATloN FILED Auaze, 191s.

'Patented 001;. L 191s.

-A TTU/MIE YS AAmin-na H. TROTTEE, Or sYmcUsE', NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent. i

sEofrrONAL HOLLOW METAL Wimax-J.'v

Application led August 26, 1 918. Serial 110.117,063'` 7?,- aZZ whom t may concern:

e itgknown that I, ARTHUR H. 'TRo-'rriiunp a citizen of the United States, and a lresident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and Stateof New York, have .invented a certain new and useful Sectional Hollow Metal Wheel, of which the following is a specification..

. This invention has for its object ametal sectional hollovs7- Wheel, which is particularly simple inconstruction, readily and economically manufactured, and highly 'efficient and durable -in use; and it consists in the novel features and the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed. j l

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying-drawmgs in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away', of a preferable form of-'my Wheel. v Y

Fig. 2 is a sectional view through one oi' the side sections of the Wheel.

Fig. 3 is a yfragmentary cross sectional View, a tire being shown thereon. "f

Fig. 4 is a. view similai to Fig. 3 of 'a modified vform of my invention.

Fig. 5"s a developed plan view ofthe .periphery of the Wheel body.` y'

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view through opposing spoke sections. y

This hollow metal wheel' comprises a body preferably composed of two opposing side sections, each of which includes felly and hub divisions or parts and spoke divisions or parts and means for fastening the Wheel sections together. Y

The Wheel is composed of sections sepa- =rable along a plane arranged at an angle a hub division or part 4 and spoke divisions to the axis of the Wheel and dividing the spokes longitudinally and intersecting the felly and the hub between the opposite sides thereof.

1 and 2 designate the side sections which in this embodiment .of my invention are shown as duplicates,`although they are not necessarily, duplicates. Each section includes an annular folly division or part '3,

or parts 5. The felly of the Wheel open at its periphery and the felly divisions or parts all provided with transverse substantially radially extending Webs or braces `'the spokes.-

Owiig to the arrangement of the sections resented oct. i, isis. y

and 7 which, in the illustrated form of my mventlon, are shown as arranged 1n transverse alinement.

The hub of the wheel is also formed with the Wall of its bore open, and the hub sec# tions 4are provided with radially extendinghwebs or braces 8, the webs of the .hub

sections being referably arranged` in aline-H ment and meetlng in the plaedividing the wheel sections. v

c The spoke divisions or parts 45N Widen atA ltheiruppe'r ends' as they approach their re- 'spective felly divisions or sections, both laterally toward the outer faces' of the side sections and in -directions circumferen--' tially of' the Wheel, as designated at9 and 10.' The Webs 6 extend into the widened vouter ends of the spoke divisions or sec? tions While the Webs '7 are spaced between the webs 6.-;- The spok'e divisions or parts,

at their inner ends also widen'in va direction f 4clrcumferentially of ,the'hub as at 11.A

^ The Wheel sections,`1 and 2 are secured to-` gether fromv lateral displacement, at;i the hub and felly, and as here showmthey are secured together at the hub by transverse fasteningmembers as bolts 12 extendin through the hub divisions or parts, an through flanges 13 and 14 engaging opposite yends of the hub, and provided respectively on a bearing sleeve 15e-extending through the central bore of the hub and on a collar 16 mounted on the sleeve.l The Wheel sections l, 2 may be` secured at the felly by apress-on tire rim 17 or by bolts 18, Fig. 4, extending transversely through the telly divisions or parts.' l y The press-on tire rim-.17 is usually'employed when the single tire is used, and the lVhen demountable I "los of the' wheel, the wheel is rrioreyec'onomicall in manufacture than a one piece hollovt7 metal wheel, as the casting operation does not involve the casting problems, mvolved in the one piece cast wheel, as willvbe .ap-

in@ i I sections, -eeehvhsvingannulaz' leliy and hub divisions and spoke divisions, the peiiphery bo'dy composed of opposing separable side of thle felye'ing open, each feiiy division having transverse internal 'radiaiwebs having their outer edges substantiaiiy fiush l with' the peripheriesothe side flanges of l 1 substantially as' and for" the .purpose the eily divisions,' and a' tire rim presse( on t'he--feily and engagingl said webs, 'subor the purpose der signedm tof @non a e, sndtsteof New York, this stantially as and scribed. l

2. A sectional hollow Wheel 'comprising e ."body composed o opposing seperble sifie sections, each havi Y 4ennuis-i1'ei l, and. hub divisions and spoke lvlslons, -the mig-being meow@ l begingtrimsverse internal lredini Webs substantieil iush with the periphery of the' eilyy an the hub divisions having internal transverse radisiwebsvbetween the spoke divisions and. the bore of the hub being opened and the edges of ias mentioned Webs being iush with the Weiiof vshe bore of thehub, a press-on tire rim on the feily and` engaging the edges of- *the webs in the feily division and a sleeve in the hub engaging the edges .of the webs in the halb,

specied. f

In testimony whereof, beve Lhereunto neme, ab Syracuse, in y the county 4minieme H. mossen 

